(RADIATOR) Dictionary changes

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello again -

Of course "Interim-Accounting" should be "Interim-Update" below.

regards

Hugh


On 9 Apr 2008, at 10:15, Hugh Irvine wrote:
>
> Hello Claudio -
>
> I agree with you - and as mentioned in my follow-up, the Radiator  
> code uses both "Alive" and "Interim-Accouning" even though only  
> "Alive" is in the dictionary.
>
> The proposed addition leaves "Alive" as the preferred alternative  
> as it is defined after "Interim-Accounting" in the dictionary file.
>
> regards
>
> Hugh
>
>
>
> On 9 Apr 2008, at 03:38, Claudio Lapidus wrote:
>>
>> Many thanks - I'll make the changes for the next patch set.
>>
>> I left "Alive" as second value so that valNumToName would still
>> return Alive to not break anything that might depend on this.
>> I'd suggest to change that after a grace period of a few minor
>> revisions.
>>
>> Yes, but "Alive" in particular is a name that has been around for  
>> a very long time, not only in Radiator but in many other servers,  
>> and there might be many people/systems that rely on that  
>> particular name while reading/postprocessing traces, detail files,  
>> etc.
>>
>> So please be careful in making changes to this part of the  
>> dictionary, it could be the case that something breaks  
>> unexpectedly in other parts of the whole chain, while the Radius  
>> server itself continues to work just fine. As they say: "If it  
>> ain't broke, don't fix it"  :-)
>>
>> HTH,
>> cl.
>>
>>
>
>
>
> NB:
>
> Have you read the reference manual ("doc/ref.html")?
> Have you searched the mailing list archive (www.open.com.au/ 
> archives/radiator)?
> Have you had a quick look on Google (www.google.com)?
> Have you included a copy of your configuration file (no secrets),
> together with a trace 4 debug showing what is happening?
> Have you checked the RadiusExpert wiki:
> http://www.open.com.au/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>
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NB:

Have you read the reference manual ("doc/ref.html")?
Have you searched the mailing list archive (www.open.com.au/archives/ 
radiator)?
Have you had a quick look on Google (www.google.com)?
Have you included a copy of your configuration file (no secrets),
together with a trace 4 debug showing what is happening?
Have you checked the RadiusExpert wiki:
http://www.open.com.au/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

-- 
Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server
anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows, MacOS X.
Includes support for reliable RADIUS transport (RadSec),
and DIAMETER translation agent.
-
Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible,
flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence.
-
CATool: Private Certificate Authority for Unix and Unix-like systems.


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